Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Cruyff Turn

The Cruyff

★★★☆☆ Age 8+ both feet Level 2 · Turns

You pretend to kick, then hide the ball behind your own leg. It is over fifty years old and it still works.

Set it up like this. Ball in front. Someone is close, coming to block your kick.

Study holds every step and names it. Flow runs them together at speed. Space bar plays and pauses; arrow keys step one frame.

  1. 1

    BIG WIND-UPSwing your foot back like you are going to kick it hard.

  2. 2

    EYESLook up at where you are pretending to kick.

  3. 3

    INSIDEDo not kick. Tap it behind your standing leg instead.

  4. 4

    SPINSpin round the other way and run onto it.

The five pictures from the book

Ball in front. Someone is close, coming to block your kick.

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1. Swing your foot back like you are going to kick it hard.
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2. Look up at where you are pretending to kick.
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3. Do not kick. Tap it behind your standing leg instead.
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4. Spin round the other way and run onto it.

Where the ball actually goes

The strip shows you; this shows the ball. Every turn in this book is a shape on the grass.

The shape the ball draws

D 1 2 3 4 Seen from above · you start at the feet

Forward, hook it back across you, out the other way.

Practise it — Sell it

10 turns. Ask a friend if they believed the fake.

Coach says

Sell the kick. Then hide the ball.

Watch out

  • A small wind-up, so nobody believes you.
  • Tapping it into your own standing leg.

Parts of the boot you use

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